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Having been enlightened to the danger of posting these
\n subversive comics without critical editorial commentary (thanks carpundit),
\n we will try to give a brief summary of our position vis-a-vis the issues
\n raised by today’s comic.<\/p>\n
Personally, the Dowbrigade would place the three lampooned
\n figures from the comic in the following order, in terms of their direct
\n responsibility for the vanquishing of the Soviet Union; Pope John Paul
\n II first, Gorbachev next, and the better-to-be-lucky-than-good Great
\n Communicator last. But
\n more than any of them, we credit Little Richard, the Who, and the whole
\n Rock and Roll ethos. Not so much the music itself, but the Rock
\n ‘n Roll attitude<\/i>, the MTV flash and hook, the allure of ritualized rebellion,
\n conspicuous consumption, and kick-out-the-jams headlong hedonistic abandon. What
\n soulless, Godless, humorless totalitarian state could hope to stand up
\n to that rabid howl, baying at the moon, mooning the authorities, running
\n naked
\n and baked though the streets and squares? Certainly not the gone but
\n not forgotten ghost of Carl Marx.<\/p>\n
from Ted Having been enlightened to the danger of posting these subversive comics without critical editorial commentary (thanks carpundit), we will try to give a brief summary of our position vis-a-vis the issues raised by today’s comic. Personally, the Dowbrigade would place … Continue reading
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